CS Colloquium — Fall 2018

Seminars are held weekly on Thursdays from 3:00-4:15pm in Joyce Cummings Center 270 and via Zoom, unless otherwise noted. To receive email notification of events and/or Zoom information, please subscribe to the CS colloquium announcements at .

September 6, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Human-in-the-Loop AI for Autonomous Problem Solving (or why humans ruin the best things)
Speaker: Kartik Talamadupula, IBM
Host: Matthias Scheutz
September 11, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Deconstructing Internet Censorship and its Consequences
Speaker: Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Host: Fahad Dogar
September 13, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Knowledge Graph learning using Open Information Extraction
Speaker: Damir Cavar, Indiana University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
September 20, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Driving Exploratory Visualization through Perception & Cognition
Speaker: Danielle Albers Szafir, University of Colorado
Host: Remco Chang
September 27, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Bayesian Nonparametric Machine Learning for Discrete Random Structures
Speaker: Diana Cai, Princeton University
Host: Mike Hughes
October 4, 2018
Halligan 102
Online Algorithms for Extreme Clustering and Automated Integration of Crowdsourced Feedback
Speaker: Ari Kobren, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Host: Norman Ramsey
October 11, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Generating New Knowledge in Art History and Material Culture with Technology. Case Studies from the Field and the Classroom
Speaker: Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University
Host: Susan Landau
October 12, 2018
10:00 AM
Halligan 102
Doctoral Thesis Defense: Algorithms and Theory for Variational Inference in Two-level Non-conjugate Models
Speaker: Rishit Sheth
Host: Roni Khardon
October 18, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Developing Inclusive Digital Environments: Challenges and Opportunities for Computer Science
Speaker: Judy Brewer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, World Wide Web Consortium
Host: Susan Landau
October 25, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Data-driven approaches for uncovering functional variation in protein interactions
Speaker: Shilpa Nadimpalli Kobren, Harvard University
Host: Lenore Cowen
October 26, 2018
10:00 AM
Halligan 209
Doctoral Thesis Defense: Incremental and Memory-Limited Probabilistic Generative Models of Early Word Learning
Speaker: Sepideh Sadeghi
Host: Matthias Scheutz
October 26, 2018
1:00 PM
Halligan 209
Graduate Research Talk: One-Shot Instruction Based Action Learning in a Cognitive Robotic Architecture
Speaker: Tyler Frasca
Host: Matthias Scheutz
October 30, 2018
12:00 PM
Halligan 209
Graduate Research Talk: Recommendation Systems for Hydrologic Data
Speaker: Zhaokun Xue
Host: Alva Couch
October 30, 2018
12:45 PM
Halligan 209
Graduate Research Talk: Amortized Variational Inference with Graph Convolutional Networks for Gaussian Processes
Speaker: Linfeng Liu
Host: Liping Liu
October 31, 2018
11:00 AM
Halligan 209
Graduate Research Talk: A Recommender Systems Approach to Imputations of Drug Profiles in Connectivity Mapping
Speaker: Rebecca Newman
Host: Donna Slonim
November 1, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Markov Chains and Emergent Behavior in Programmable Matter
Speaker: Sarah Cannon, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Diane Souvaine
November 6, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 209
Data Science, Humanely
Speaker: Carlos Scheidegger, University of Arizona
Host: Remco Chang
November 8, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Wearable Interactions Using Touch without a Touchscreen
Speaker: Xing-Dong Yang, Dartmouth College
Host: Rob Jacob
November 15, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Finding Similar Items Under Edit Distance
Speaker: Sam McCauley, Wellesley College
Host: Diane Souvaine
November 27, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 209
Improving Lower-Division CS/CE Education -- Recent Experiences and Results
Speaker: Frank Vahid, University of California, Riverside
Host: Soha Hassoun (CS) and Mark Hempstead (ECE)
November 28, 2018
12:00pm
Halligan 111A
Two Ways of Looking at Machine Learning
Speaker: Marty Allen, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Host: Megan Monroe
November 29, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Reliable Decision-Support using Counterfactual Models
Speaker: Peter Schulam, Johns Hopkins University
Host: Mike Hughes
December 6, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Aurum: A Data Discovery System
Speaker: Raul Castro Fernandez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Remco Chang
December 11, 2018
11:00 AM
Halligan 111B
Doctoral Thesis Defense: Spatial Interactive Agent-based Models at Multiple Levels of Biological Organization
Speaker: Giordano Ferreira
Host: Matthias Scheutz
December 11, 2018
12:00 PM
Halligan 111A
Data-Oriented Design and Programming for Performance
Speaker: Mike Shah, Northeastern University
Host: Remco Chang
December 12, 2018
1:00 PM
Halligan 209
Demo Lecture: Functional Simplicity: An Introduction to the Lambda Calculus
Speaker: Richard Townsend, Columbia University
Host: Remco Chang
December 13, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Streaming Data Analytics
Speaker: Erieta Liarou, Vertica
Host: Remco Chang

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